Clothesline



July 5, 1949. T. F. M. JENSEN 2,475,325

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CLOTHESLINE 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Filed Nov. 18, 1947 INVENTOR. THOMAJI 44.JENSEN ATTOR/VEK I Patented July 5, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICECLOTHESLINE Thomas F. M. Jensen, Amsterdam, N. Y.

Application November 18, 1947, Serial No. 786,752

2 Claims.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes lineholders, and it has for its object to provide a device which will makeit possible for a person, or house wife, who washes her own clothes toput out such clothes from a window and retrieve them again without thedanger of falling out of the window, which danger is ever present withthe devices now commonly used for said purposes. 1

The said device is easy and comparatively simple to manufacture, and canwith but little effort be attached to any window frame.

It is in view thereof thought that this device should have large marketpossibilities.

With the above and other objects in view, this invention consists of thenovel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts,hereinafter fully described, claimed and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings forming part of this application, and in which similarcharacters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all views, andin which:

Figure 1 is a somewhat perspective elevational view, showing my devicein operation and attached to a window frame.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 showing my device with part ofthe clothes line swung into a room.

Figure 3 is also a view similar to Figure 1, showing the clothes linewith my device outside a window.

Figure 4 is a view taken on the line 44 in Figure 3, and partly insection, while Figure 5 is a view taken on the line 5-5 in Figure 4 andpartly in section.

Figure 6 is a view taken on the line 6-6 in Figure 4 and partly insection, while Figure 7 is a view taken on the line !-1 in Figure 6.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, the numeral it! indicates awindow frame, to the latter is attached a rod, or member II, for thesupport of one end of a clothes line, said rod is secured to the windowframe by the usual brackets l2, l2. The rod ll comprises two parts 13and M detachably threaded and held together by means of a coupling 1 5.

Turnably and slidably mounted on the rod section is is a T member 21, aknee member 28 is threadedly secured to the T member 21, and a rod I?has one end threadedly connected to said knee member and the other endthereof threadedly connected to a conventionally forked memher I!) whichholds a pulley 20; another pulley 2| is arranged at the upper end of therod l'l, said pulleys 20 and 2! being adapted to carry one end of theclothes line 22.

The T member 21 mounted upon the rod section l3 abuts at one end aspring 23 wound upon the extreme end of said rod section l3; said springabuts, in turn, one of the brackets I 2.

The rod section I3 is near one end thereof formed with two or more studs24, while one end of the T member 21 is formed with detents 25 thereinadapted to arrest the inward movement, caused by the spring action, ofsaid T member 27, as one of said detents will tightly engage one of thestuds 24 due to said spring action. A lever 26 is also pivotally mountedupon the rod section I3; said lever is adapted to act upon one end ofthe T member 27 so as to compress the spring 23 and thereby release adetent 25 of T member from engagement with a stud 24.

This latter operation is performed when it is desired to bring the endof the clothes on the pulley 2% inside the room, as the T member 21,which is slidable and turnable upon the rod section [3, is swung intothe room, and said T member made to engage another stud suitable forsaid position of the clothes line.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form, construction andarrangement of the several parts, as shown, within the scope of theappended claims, without departing from the spirit of the invention, andI do not, therefore, wish to limit myself to the exact constructionshown and described herein.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is:

1. A clothes line comprising a rod, means for securing said rod to awindow frame, a T member slidable and turnable upon said rod, a kneemember fixedly secured to the T member, a second rod connected to saidknee member, pulleys mounted upon said latter rod and adapted to carry aclothes line, said first rod having studs thereon, the T member beingformed with detents at one end thereof adapted to engage, respectively,one of said studs, a spring mounted upon said first rod and adapted tokeep the detents of the T member in engagement with said studs, and alever pivotally mounted upon said first rod and adapted to disengage thedetents of said T member from said stud and permitting a re-engagementof one of the detents of the T member with another stud, whereby tobring the second rod into a horizontal or vertical position.

2. In a device, as claimed in claim 1, and wherein said rods compriseseveral sections, and couplings joining said sections together.

THOMAS F. M. JENSEN.

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